Abrupt For-Profit Closures Surprise Regulators

The American Career Institute closed its campus in Framingham, Mass., and seven other campuses in Massachusetts and Maryland without warning in January. More than 2,200 students were affected.

By Kelly Field

Tracy DeLorey was only three months away from graduation in
January when she learned, via Facebook, that her college, American
Career Institute, had closed. The news, she said, "was a kick in
the face."

"I wasted a year and a half," said Ms. DeLorey, a single mother
of three who works at the commissary at Hanscom Air Force Base, in
Massachusetts. More than 2,200 students and 200 employees in
Massachusetts and Maryland were displaced by ACI's closure.